Milk-bottle.



A. MULDER.

MILK BOTTLE.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 23, 1910 Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

ALJ'E MULDER, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

MILK-BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912..

Application filed July 23, 1910. Serial No. 573,583.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALJE MULDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Grand Rapids, in the'county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Bottles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to the improvement in milk bottles used in supplying and delivering milk to the trade.

The object of this invention is to manufacture a milk bottle which, by its construction, will indicate the richness of milk, from which may be drawn the cream when separated in the bottle. I have for this purpose a bottle of the regular form provided with a side neck, opening through the wall of the bottle. For this side open ing I have a stopper provided with a pin at one end. This stopper may be made of glass or wood or any material suitable for that purpose.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bottle with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the stopper and pin. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the sealing disk.

A is the bottle; B is the side neck; C is the stopper; D is the pin; E is a paper wafer; same to be used for closing the bottle at top in the usual way.

A bottle of this size and form when filled, with a good quality of milk and when separated in the bottle will show a dividing line F of cream from milk at a point four table for the milk delivered in the morning shows most of the time that separation has taken place. The result thus obtained shows that the milk was produced the night before and kept on ice by the dealer until delivery is made.

This bottle can be manufactured very cheaply, for almost the same cost as the ordinary one neck bottle and will, therefore, be of service to the poor as well as the rich. It will also be a great aid to the sick and infants as physiclans often prescribe pure cream and sometimes skimmed milk and this invention will serve both purposes.

I am aware that it is not a new idea to put an opening in the side of a bottle or other receptacle and I dont make a claim for it. But, as it is universally known for the past ten years that the majority of milk users want a milk bottle from which they could pour the separated cream without mixing it again with the milk, there must be a desire for a bottle as above described which-would be cheap and sanitary.

My claim is as follows:

In combination with a bottle havin a discharge opening in the top thereof an a rel-.

JOHN RIORDAN, JOHN P. WALSH. 

